Tag: Advocate

What is ‘ICT Guides’?

The UK based Arts and Humanities Data Service at Kings College in London is a leading example of a centre that advances the use of ICTs within the Humanities. They have a number of fine innovations; such as the Methodologies Network directed by Harold Short plus the recently released ICT Guides. ICT Guides seeks to…
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October 12, 2006

history, humanities computing, internet, social media, web2.0
Youtube founders talk about selling out to Google

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October 10, 2006

social media, video, web2.0
Private Images and Public Debate

(Published by myself in the Age , Opinion section today . The recent discovery of a number of videos of young Australian soldiers brandishing military weapons and skylarking on the popular video sharing system, Youtube, perhaps comes as no surprise given the shear volume of material now contained on services such as this. From the…
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October 10, 2006

internet, key points, politics, social media, technology, web2.0
hypertextual video

Youtube doesn’t really do anything new. It it just the ‘delivery boy’ of online video. But how about this innovation? This is similar to what I was trying to do in my own work 5 years ago with milkbar.com.au. It is what you call ‘hypertextual video’ in that it allows the user to embed links…
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September 19, 2006

hypertext, internet, social media, video, web2.0
Steve Irwin on Heggle

Heggle is a ‘video aggregation’ site similar to a ‘news aggregation site’. You can search this system for a topic like ‘Steve Irwin’ and it will come back with all the videos on all the video sites about this bloke. http://heggle.com/search?t=steve+irwin&c=0 And yes, Irwin was a totally embarrassment and I do agree with Germain Greer…
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September 8, 2006

internet, politics, video, web2.0
30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China

I am not sure how accurate this claim is; that 30 000 police monitor Blogs in China, but it is form the Guardian, which is a pretty reliable if not at times a predictably narrow publication. When will big Western media realise that the Cold War is over and it is now safe to take…
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September 1, 2006

media, politics, web2.0

Tag: Advocate

What is ‘ICT Guides’?

Youtube founders talk about selling out to Google

Private Images and Public Debate

hypertextual video

Steve Irwin on Heggle

30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China